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Dramatic Irony, Narrative, and the External Perspective

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 2007
There is a frequently asked philosophical question about our ability to grasp and to predict the thoughts and feelings of other people, an ability that is these days sometimes given the unfortunate name of ‘mentalising’ or ‘mind-reading’—I say ‘unfortunate’ because it makes appear mysterious what is not mysterious.
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Justice at Trial: Dramatic Ironies of the Postracial State

Law, Culture and the Humanities, 2011
This article challenges the celebration of Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court as the realization of the American dream and Court diversity in a colorblind era. It analyzes the epistemological compromises Sotomayor had to make in order to comply with what I call the prevailing legal metanarrative of postracial impartiality.
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Edward Bond's Dialectic: Irony and Dramatic Metaphors

Modern Drama, 1982
In directing the American premiere of Edward Bond's Bingo at Cleveland, Ohio, in 1975, Jonathan Bolt staged one of Bond's special scenic images so powerfully that the audience was momentarily stunned. This scene, the presentation of a young woman gibbeted on two upright beams while an older couple enjoy their picnic lunch at the foot of the hanging ...
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‘Così Fan Tutte’: Dramatic Irony

1977
Like Don Giovanni, Mozart’s last opera buffa carried the burden of its own myth for a long time. Yet the stage history of Cosi fan tutte differs essentially from that of its predecessor. While audiences all over Europe were invariably fascinated by the theme of the legendary libertine, the subject matter of The School of Lovers’ was simply rejected. In
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Dramatic Irony in Antony and Cleopatra

Shakespeare Quarterly, 1967
NTONY, one may imagine, looks a little distraught; and a slight operatic tremolo carries over from the well-turned bel canto tribute to his late wife Fulvia. Enobarbus knows his man even if he does not know the news: his remarks are dry and pointed-ironic, in a sense recognized in Shakespeare's time, that is, in the rhetorical mode described as the ...
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Dramatic Inconclusion: Irony and the Narrative Rhetoric of the Ending of Mark

Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 1995
La fin de l'Evangile de Marc developpe une rhetorique dans laquelle toutes les dynamiques textuelles travaillent en situation de comedie; au lieu de cela, l'histoire se termine sur une note d'inachevement tragique. Une telle fin met en doute l'integrite du narrateur, l'auteur et Jesus lui-meme.
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Dramatic Irony and Pagan Salvation inBeowulf

ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes and Reviews, 2018
A longstanding debate in Beowulf criticism concerns the spiritual status of the poem’s pagan heroes.
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Dramatic irony inmourning becomes electra

The Southern Speech Journal, 1965
(1965). Dramatic irony in mourning becomes electra. The Southern Speech Journal: Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 42-55.
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The Secret'st Man of Blood. A Study of Dramatic Irony in Macbeth

Shakespeare Quarterly, 1959
ACBETH is a play that has lent itself to frequent and full l analysis,' and several writers have commented in passing on * w MqM the high incidence of dramatic irony in it. There may seem little purpose in isolating this aspect of the play for a treat* ment which earlier critics have thought fit to leave unmade, presumably because they considered it ...
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Rethinking Dramatic Irony with George Eliot’s Silas Marner

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